Cultural protection: a big win for the honest citizens
PHIL FITZPATRICK ON 6 NOVEMBER LAST YEAR, Julius Violaris, the owner of Nawae Constructions and President of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum and Art Gallery in Port Moresby, gave a speech....
View ArticleIn an open canoe for the Pacific’s past & future
KEITH JACKSON THIS IS A HEART WARMING STORY of an adventurous open canoe voyage designed to draw people’s attention to climate change and sea levels – two related issues of significant environmental...
View ArticleCorruption is "single biggest threat" to PNG's future
Radio Australia | ABC IN A STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS yesterday, prime minister Peter O'Neill outlined an anti-corruption strategy and promised to rebuild the country's public institutions and...
View Article'Benign' malaria drove human evolution in Pacific
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute | PLoS Medicine THE MALARIA SPECIES RAMPANT in the Asia-Pacific region has been a significant driver of evolution of the human genome, a new study has shown. An...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea: the almost broken country
PETER RYAN | Quadrant SOMBRE … YES: I THINK SOMBRE is the best single word to describe the brownish mood pervading my study tonight. It could hardly be otherwise, for I am writing about Papua New...
View ArticleGun violence being accepted as ‘a normal part of life’
CATHERINE WILSON | Inter Press Service [extracts] IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, where more than 60% of major crimes involve guns, a burgeoning illegal arms trade is associated with lack of employment growth and...
View ArticleMassive transport overhaul will add to economic growth
Oxford Business Group THE $15 BILLION EXXON-MOBIL-LED liquefied natural gas project has provided the catalyst for Papua New Guinea’s transport sector’s first major overhaul since gaining independence...
View ArticleAnother review that gives less than the full picture
Weheart.co.uk Occasionally (not often) in PNG Attitude we republish an article that demonstrates great ignorance about Papua New Guinea – although earlier this week we chose not to reproduce a sleazy...
View ArticleMelanesian values and a different take on well-being
BOB MAKIN | Vanuatu Daily Post SURVEYS AND REPORTS are not generally riveting reading. Here is an exception. Alternative indicators for well-being for Melanesia - a Vanuatu pilot study is compulsive...
View ArticleOn going back home to the Western Province
MARTYN NAMORONG Even by his own standards of gritty engagement and willful confrontation, Martyn Namorong has had a topsy turvy 2012 – from mixing it with the Australian media and political elite in...
View ArticlePNG Attitude’s most commented upon stories in August
KEITH JACKSON CRIKEY, IT’S BEEN A HECTIC SIX MONTHS. I was called back from semi-retirement to try to revive an ailing business, then to shut it down, then to create another with Phoenix aspirations,...
View ArticleRelive the nostalgia & bore the pants off your grandkids
PHIL FITZPATRICK ‘Port Moresby: Taim Bipo’ by Stuart Hawthorne, Boolarong Press, 2011. 310 pages. Available for $45, postage included, from the author at www.StuartHawthorne.com. RUMMAGING THROUGH DR...
View ArticleKokoda demons were a struggle for the 'Angels'
CATHERINE ARMITAGE | Sydney Morning Herald DEVENI TEMU'S FATHER NEVER SPOKE of his devastating experience as a carrier on the Kokoda Track. The only references he ever made to the war were the names he...
View ArticleManus processing centre agreed by O’Neill, Gillard
SKY NEWS AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER Julia Gillard has left the APEC summit in Vladivostok prematurely because of her father's death, but not before completing some important diplomatic business. Ms...
View ArticleMining threatens the fresh, healing waters of Kairiru
MICHAEL FRENCH SMITH | Earth Island Journal I’VE BEEN VISITING Kragur Village on Kairiru Island in Papua New Guinea as a cultural anthropologist since 1975. Kragur villagers have always been poor in...
View ArticleJohn Howard’s values & a deliberate Melanesian people
ERASMUS BARANIAK "When modern man goes to extrinsic sources to understand his own existence and his own past, we Melanesians reach deep within to find and know ourselves..." THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER on...
View ArticleOur future is on the streets & the challenge confronts us
LAPIEH LANDU IT COULD BE A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES but also a cry for immediate response: the cosmic amount of youths, let alone children, begging and making ends meet through directing traffic, caretaking...
View ArticleChristianity a problem for us: it drives people off the plot
LEONARD FONG ROKA IN THIS DAY AND AGE, CHRISTIANITY is an impediment to any form of human development in Bougainville, apart from the spiritual. From the simple exaggerated Bible-based teachings,...
View ArticleThe Flight of Galkope – stories from the men’s house
PHIL FITZPATRICK ‘The Flight of Galkope’ by Kela Kapkora Sil Bolkin, Crawford House Publishing, Adelaide, 2012. Contact www.crawfordhouse.com.au to pre-order a copy THE TRIBES AND CLANS OF THE GALKOPE...
View ArticleThe Manus factor: Lombrum base & the China connection
SAMUEL ROTH | Foreign Affairs Commentary EARLY LAST WEEK, THE OUTSPOKEN African clergyman Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for George Bush and Tony Blair to be put on trial in the International Criminal...
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